CHALLENGES: The purpose of this part of the course is too examine some of the most important challenges that will face China's leaders in the near future and that will have a bearing on China's political future.

First, re: the assignment. Most of the topics are assigned "solo." Where two students are assigned, you should divide the topic as suggested. If anyone wants to switch topics, I am open to the possibility if you get in touch with me as soon as possible. Your task is to report on the "challenge" in general, for which you may want to consult sources other than those listed. You should also read at least one or two substantive scholarly articles or book chapters (depending on length and substance) on the topic. I hope it's clear which those are by the title of the journals or books. Your report should include a discussion of the article/chapter's perspective on the challenge.

Please let me know if any of the links don't work.

TOPICS AND PRESENTERS

FINANCIAL SYSTEM (Heather)

The following articles from The Economist*:

Sebastian Heilman, "Regulatory Innovation by Leninist Means: Communist Party Supervision in China's Financial Industry," The China Quarterly 181 (March 2005), 1-21. LINK

Victor Shih, "Dealing with Non-Performing Loans: Political Constraints and Financial Policies in China," The China Quarterly 180  (December 2004),  922-944. LINK

Victor Shih, "Factions Matter: Personal Networks and the Distribution of Bank Loans in China," Journal of Contemporary China. 13 (38): 3-19. via library

FEMALE SUICIDE (Melissa)

ACCESS ASIA, "The Problem of Suicide in China," Dec. 2004. LINK \

M.R. Phillips,  G. Yang,"Suicide and attempted suicide: China, 1990-2002," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,  June 11, 2004. LINK

Wu Chong, "Women in life-and-death struggle," China Daily, Nov. 11, 2004. LINK; and "Prevention Project Offers an Outlet," ibid. LINK

Liu Meng, "Rebellion and revenge: the meaning of suicide of women in rural China," International Journal of Social Welfare Volume 11 Issue 4 Page 300  - October 2002.

Jie Zhang, et. al., "Characteristics of Chinese Suicide Attempters: An Emergency Room Study," Death Studies, Issue: Volume 30, Number 3 / April 2006
Pages: 259 - 268. NOT AVAILABLE ON-LINE UNTIL ONE YEAR AFTER PUBLICATION

J. Ji, A. Kleinman, A. Becker, "Suicide in contemporary China: a review of China's distinctive suicide demographics in their sociocultural context," Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Volume 9, Number 1 / January 2001, Pages: 1 - 12. TBA

Paul S. F. Yip, et. al., "Suicide rates in China during a decade of rapid social changes," Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology," 2005 Oct; 40(10):792-8. NOT AVAILABLE ON-LINE UNTIL ONE YEAR AFTER PUBLICATION.

UNCIVIL SOCIETY (Alyse)

An Chen, "Secret Societies and Organized Crime in Contemporary China," Modern Asian Studies (2005), 39:1:77-107 LINK

Susan Trevaskes, "Public sentencing rallies in China: The symbolizing of punishment and justice in a socialist stat3," Crime, Law and Social Change, Issue: Volume 39, Number 4 June 2003, Pages: 359 - 382. Access via library

Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang, and Steven F. Messner, eds., Crime and social control in a changing China, 2001. ebrary

Xin Ren, "Violence Against Women Under China's Economic Modernisation: Resurgence of Women Trafficking in China" World Justice Information Network, 02/01/2002. LINK

Shuqiao Xiao, "Researching Abused Women in China," 2003 (2) Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD). LINK

Gracie Ming Zhao, "Trafficking of women for marriage in China: Policy and practice," Criminal Justice, Feb 2003; 3: 83 - 102. TBA

Xin Ren, "Prostitution and Economic Modernization in China," Violence Against Women, Dec 1999; 5: 1411 - 1436.

Deng Zhenlai, et al, "Drug Trafficking and Consumption in China: Two Case Studies," International Social Science Journal, Volume 53 Issue 169, 415, p. 415   - September 2001.

Zhao Zhengcheng, et. al., "Drug Abuse in China," Annals of the N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1025: 439–445 (2004). NOT YET ON-LINE

RELIGION (Ken)

Daniel L. Overmyer, "Religion in China Today: Introduction," The China Quarterly, Volume 174  - June 2003, pp 307-316. LINK

Pitman B. Potter, "Belief in Control: Regulation of Religion in China," The China Quarterly, Volume 174  - June 2003, pp 317-337. LINK

Amnesty International, "China: Religious freedom rhetoric fails to translate into reality," Dec. 21, 2004. LINK

H. H. Lai, "Religious Policies in Post-Totalitarian China: Maintaining Political Monopoly over a Reviving Society," in Journal of Chinese Political Science, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 55 - 77. [I can send you a copy]

DEMOGRAPHIC DILEMMAS (One-Child Policy, Aging, Pension/Social Security) (Eleanor & Sarah)

Wang Feng, "Can China Afford to Continue Its One-Child Policy?," AsiaPacific Issues, No. 77, East-West Center, March 2005. LINK

Edwin A. Winckler, "Chinese Reproductive Policy at the Turn of the Millennium: Dynamic Stability," Population and Development Review, September 2002, 28.3, 379-418. LINK

Susan Greenhalgh, "Science, modernity, and the making of China's one-child policy," Population and Development Review June 2003 29.2, 163-196. LINK

Susan Greenhalgh, "Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China’s One-Child Policy. China Quarterly 182, June 2005, pp. 253-276.

Isabelle Attane, "China's Family Planning Policy: An Overview of Its Past and Future," Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 33, No. 1(Mar., 2002), pp. 103-113. LINK

Richard Jackson and Neil Howe, "The Greying of the Middle Kingdom," CSIS and Prudential Foundation Report, April 2004. LINK

Robert Stowe England, Aging China : the demographic challenge to China's economic prospects. Washington, D.C., CSIS Press, 2005. Book: in library.

Hongxin Li and Marcel Mérette, Population Ageing and Pension System Reform in China: A Computable Overlapping-Generations General Equilibrium Model Analysis," Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Volume 3, Number 3 / November 2005, pages: 263 - 277. Very Quantiative LINK - have to register: free

"Social security in China: government white paper," (DOCUMENTS), Population and Development Review, March 2005 v31 i1 p185(5). [Via library]

Peng Xizhe, "Is it Time to Change China's Population Policy?," China: an International Journal 2.1 (2004) 135-149. [Project Muse via library]

William Hurst and Kevin O'Brien, "China's Contentious Pensioners," The China Quarterly (2002), 170: 345-360. LINK

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THE FLOATING POPULATION (Verna)

Dorothy J. Solinger, "Internal Migrants and the Challenge of the 'Floating Population' in the PRC," chapter 7 in Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Woo, eds., East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Cultures (New York: Routledge/Curzon, 2002), 137-155. ebrary

Zai Liang, Zhongdong Ma. "China's floating population: new evidence from the 2000 census," Population and Development Review Sept 2004, v30 i3 pp. 467-488 . LINK

Li Zhang, Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population (2001), ch. 1. ebrary

Yu Zhu, "The floating population's household strategies and the role of migration in China's regional development and integration,"

HEALTH CARE (including HIV/AIDs)

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., and William Hsiao, Ph.D., "Privatization and Its Discontents — The Evolving Chinese Health Care System," New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 353:1165-1170 September 15, 2005 Number 11. LINK

Liming Lee, "The Current State of Public Health in China," in Annual Review of Public Health, April 2004, Vol. 25, Pages 327-339.

Yuanli Liu, "China’s public health-care system: facing the challenges," Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), Volume 82, Number 7, July 2004. LINK (to journal TOC)

Gao J, Qian J, Tang S, et. al., ."Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China," Health Policy Plan. 2002 Dec;17 Suppl:20-9. LINK

Veronica Pearson, "A broken compact: women's health in the reform era," in Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu, eds., China's deep reform : Domestic politics in transition (2006). On order. (I have a copy)

Yanzhong Huang , "Bringing the local state back in: the political economy of public health in rural China Journal of Contemporary China, Issue: Volume 13, Number 39 / May 2004pp. 367 - 390. Access via library

Drew Thompson, "Pre-empting an HIV/AIDS disaster in China ," Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Vol 4, no. 2, 2003. LINK to journal TOC

Joan Kaufman, "AIDS in China: The Time to Act is Now," Science Magazine, June 28, 2002. LINK

"A Joint Assessment of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in China" (2004), Jointly prepared by PRC State Council AIDS Working Committee Office and UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS in China. LINK

China Aids Survey: An excellent resource of up-to-date infomration about HIV/AIDs situation in China. LINK

INEQUALITY (Christin)

An Chen, The New Inequality" Journal of Democracy - Volume 14, Number 1, January 2003, pp. 51-59. Link via library.

James E. Nickum, "Review. Broken Eggs in the Market:The Rise of Inequality in China," The China Journal, No. 49. (Jan., 2003), pp. 119-126. LINK

Shujie Yao, Zongyi Zhang, and Lucia Hanme, "Growing inequality and poverty in China," China Economic Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-163. LINK

"Gender Equality and Women's Development in China," Government White Paper, Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, August 2005. LINK

"Statistical Data: Women and Men in China----Facts and Figures 2004" PRC Statistical Information Network, 2005. LINK [I have a PDF copy]

LI ZI, "Rural Dilemmas," Beijing Review, March 10. 2005, 48.10: 21-24. LINK

LI XIANG, "Playing Fair With Farmers,"Beijing Review, March 10. 2005, 48.10: 25-27. LINK

DEVELOPMENT AND UNREST ON THE PERIPHERY (Cathleen & Alex)

"Open Up the West" Campaign

David S. G. Goodman,"The Campaign to “Open Up the West”: National, Provincial-level and Local Perspectives," The China Quarterly, Volume 178, June 2004, pp 317-334. LINK AND one other article in this issue: LINK

Hongyi Harry Lai, "China's Western Development Program: Its Rationale, Implementation, and Prospects," Modern China 2002 28: 432-466. LINK

Various articles in Journal of Contemporary, Issue: Volume 13, Number 41 / November, 2004. Access via library

Xinjiang

Arienne M. Dwyer, The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse, Policy Studies, No. 15, East-West Center (2005). LINK

Human Rights Watch, "Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang." (April 2005) LINK

Herbert S. Yee , “Ethnic Relations in Xinjiang: A Survey of Uygur-Han Relations in Urumqi,” Journal of Contemporary China , vol. 12, no. 36 (August, 2003), pp. 431 - 452. Access via library S

Tibet

Allen Carlson, "Beijing's Tibet Policy: Securing Sovereignty and Legitimacy," Policy Studies, No. 4. East-West Center (2004).LINK

Warren Smith, "China's Policy on Tibetan Autonomy," East-West Center Washington Working Papers, No. 2 (October 2004). LINK

June T. Dreyer, "Economic Development in Tibet under the People's Republic of China," Journal of Contemporary China, Issue: Volume 12, Number 36 / August 2003, Pages: 411 - 430. Access via library.

SEX AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Patti)

WL Parish, S Yee, EO Lauman, " Going Along to Get Along: Female Sexual Submission in Urban China," Population Research Council, University of Chicago (2002). LINK

James Farrer, Sun Zhongxin, "Extramarital Love in Shanghai," The China Journal, No. 50. (Jul., 2003), pp. 1-3. LINK

Yunxiang Yan, "Courtship, Love and Premarital Sex in a North China Village," The China Journal, No. 48. (Jul., 2002), pp. 29-53. LINK

Xu Qian , Shenglan Tang and Paul Garner,"Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review," BMC Health Services Research 2004, 4:1 LINK

CORRUPTION (Monique)

Andrew  Wederman, "The Intensification of Corruption in China," The China Quarterly (2004), 180:895-921. LINK

Andrew Wedeman, "Anticorruption Campaigns and the Intensification of Corruption in China," Journal of Contemporary China Volume 14, Number 42 / February, 2005, pp. 93 - 116. LINK

Feng Jiahua,"Anti-Corruption Crusade: A five-year plan for dealing a blow to corrupt officials," Beijing Review, Feb. 24, 2005, 48.8: 22-23. LINK

Ting Gong, "Dangerous collusion: corruption as a collective venture in contemporary China,"  Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 35, Issue 1, (March 2002), 85-103. LINK

Shawn Shieh, "The Rise of Collective Corruption in China: the Xiamen smuggling case," Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 14, Number 42 / February, 2005, pp. 67 - 91. On-line via library.

Internet Center for Corruption Research. Look at this web site for information on China's corruption in comparative perspective. LINK

Yan Sun, "The politics of conceptualizing corruption in reform China," Crime, Law and Social Change 35, no. 3 (2001): 245-27